Claire Connolly, 2023 Burns Visiting Scholar Lecture in Irish Studies
Watery Romanticism: Crossing the Irish Sea with Keats
What happens when we put literary concepts and periods to work between and across bodies of water? "Watery Romanticism" offers a new account of Irish culture in the late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century with a particular focus on the constitutive role of sea crossings. Seas and coasts were part of everyday Irish life in the romantic-era: authors, soldiers, landlords, migrant workers, students and members of parliament moved between our islands and across the empire along with books, letters, wine, food, weapons and cattle.
For the lecture, Connolly will examine one singular case, the crossing between Port Patrick and Donaghadee undertaken by a young John Keats in the summer of 1818 and his subsequent walk to and from Belfast in the months just before he wrote some of his best-known poems. She will draw on the blue, environmental and spatial humanities to analyze Keats’s Irish and Scottish letters and consider the limits imposed upon the creative imagination by the crowded, miserable landscapes of pre-Famine Ireland.
Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork and the 2023-2024 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies.
For more about Connolly and the topic of her talk, please see this feature article in the Boston College Chronicle:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCd9...
For more information on the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies program, please visit: https://libguides.bc.edu/burnsscholars
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